Paul Rogers: Dangerous Signals in Trump’s State of the Union Address

February 6, 2018 February 6, 2018

In this trenchant analysis, Professor Paul Rogers, who has been cataloguing the manifest failures of the “war on terror” since its inception, demonstrates how President Trump appears determined to continue this folly.

[George W. Bush] crafted not anew American centuryleading to a more peaceful world, but a wasteland: sixteen years of war, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, millions of refugees fleeing their homes and livelihoods, states such as Afghanistan, Iraq and especially Libya wrecked, and expanding insurgency and insecurity across avast swathe of territory. (Paul Rogers)